From Cliche To Archetype
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ISBN : 9780670330935
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From Cliche to Archetype
Six years after the publication of his seminal work, Understanding Media, the Extensions of Man, Marshall McLuhan linked his insights into media to his love of literature and produced From Clich to Archetype. In the age of electronic retrieval, the entire phenomenal universe is at once junkyard and museum -- clich and archetype. Every culture now rides on the back of every other culture.In these pages, readers learn how to look at stale clichs with fresh eyes, as artists do, and discover that clichs provide the key to understanding Modernism, from the puns of James Joyce to Ionesco's Theater of the Absurd. McLuhan mines the greats of modern literature, such as Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, and points the way to richer understanding of their work. Discussion ranges over conventional topics of literary analysis such as genres, esthetics, rhetoric, paradox, mimesis, and parody, though never in conventional fashion, because McLuhan deliberately stakes his turf in a manner that draws technology and culture together. As a result, the key terms clich and archetype are not confined to language but are shown to have counterparts in the non-linguistic world. The present work reprises themes from Understanding Media, such as old media becoming the content of new media, and identifies for the first time the typical effect of a new technology retrieving an older form of technology. In this new and redesigned publication of McLuhan's neglected masterpiece, editor W. Terrence Gordon provides a richer reading with concise chapter introductions.
Specification of From Cliche to Archetype
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Author | Marshall McLuhan |
Binding | hardcover |
Language | english |
Edition | First Edition |
ISBN-10 | 0670330930 |
ISBN-13 | 9780670330935 |
Publication Year | 1970-11-17T00:00:01Z |
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